For the railroad engineer and architect (son of the bishop) see W. B. W. Howe, Jr. William Bell White Howe (March 31, 1823 – November 25, 1894) was the sixth Bishop of South Carolina in the Episcopal Church.

Howe was ordained deacon on April 9, 1847, and priest on June 4, 1849, by the Bishop of South Carolina Christopher Edwards Gadsden in Charleston, South Carolina, on both occasions.

He served as rector of St John's Church in Berkley, South Carolina from 1848 till 1860.

He then served as rector of St Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina between 1863 and 1871.

[3] On May 14, 1971, Howe was elected Coadjutor Bishop of South Carolina on October 8, 1871, in St Paul's Church, Baltimore by Presiding Bishop Benjamin B. Smith.